Historical fictions and Hellenistic Jewish identity
Subtitle: Third Maccabees in its cultural context
By: Sara Raup Johnson
Series: Hellenistic culture and society -- 43; The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Third Book of Maccabees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Jews -- Identity -- History -- To 1500; Historical fiction -- History and criticism
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index
Table of contents: title: Historical fictions and Hellenistic Jewish identity. Jews at court; title: Josephus; title: Patriarchal fictions; title: Third Maccabees, a case study. Date, literary context, authorship, and audience; title: Historicity and historical ambivalence